Irish Players Rubbish Pay-off Claims

25 June 2015

Several players have rubbished claims made in an Argentinean newspaper yesterday that Irish players were paid 10 thousand euro each not to injure Lionel Messi when they met in a friendly at the Aviva in 2010.

Kevin Kilbane, Keith Fahey, Keith Andrews and Darren O'Dea have all denied the claims while the FAI released statement last night stating there was no truth to the report.

The association say the claims made in La Naicion newspaper are baseless and that they were looking into taking legal action against the paper.